Azealia Banks' mother would hit her and her sisters with baseball bats, bang their heads up against walls.
Her mother would always tell her that she was ugly. Once she threw out all the food in the fridge, just so we wouldn’t have anything to eat.
She moved out of her mother’s home at age 14 to live with her older sister.
Banks posed n*de for the April issue of Playboy in 2015.
In 2016
she admitted to lightening her skin and defended the process of skin bleaching.
She identifies as bise*ual.
She is known for publicly speaking out on African American civil rights issues.
At the age of 10, she began performing in theaters.
She never finished high school, instead choosing to follow her dream of becoming a recording artist.
She used YouTube as a medium to upload her several demo tracks.